The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-08-24

Herald, has resigned.
A YOUNG Catholic priest of Illinois claims
TO have rediscovered Greek fire.
THE locomotive engineers of the Mexican
Central railway are all on strike.
THE rush to Europe this year has exceeded
anything that has been seen before.
The great jewelry firm of n. Matson &
Co., Chicago, has failed for $4,000.
OVER 900 Chinese are said to have been
swept away by floods at Churwan Flu.
PROFESSOR S. f. BAIRD of the Smithsonian
Institution died Friday at Woods Holl.
AT Stoughton, Mass, one man killed
another instantly by blow with his fist.
A DISPATCH from Woodstock, Va, says
that Senator Riddleberger is seriously i'll.
HEAVY rains and wind throughout New
England did much damage last Thursday.
AN elevator in New York fell three sto-
ries with eighteen women. One was killed.
A sLEEPING-CAR was wrecked on the Fort
Wayne road and its inmates were seriously
injured,
IT is said that Austria, England and Italy
have consented to continue diplomatic rea-
tions with Bulgaria.
RICHARD BEAN, an employee at Maynard's
stable, Boston, has, by the death of an uncle,
fallen heir to 81, 100000.
THE President has received sixty-nine in
vitations to visit cities South and West
during his October tour.
NUMEROUS brick buildings were leveled
and two persons were killed by tornado
at Republican City, Kansas.
EDISON claims to have achieved his great
est triumph in an invention which will pro-
duce electricity directly from coal.
FOUR fatal accidents to Alpine tourists
are reported from Zurich, making eighteen
deaths in the Alps within month.
j. b. DUNN, a New York stock broker, is
under arrest for alleged completely in the
robbery of the Manhattan Bank in 1886.
ALvAN CLARK, the founder of the famous
telescope works in Cambridge, died last
Friday, at the age of eighty-three years.
PROFESSOR j. W. POWELL of Washington
was elected president of the American AS
ISOLATION for the Advancement of Science
THE purchasing committee bought the
New York City g. Northern railroad for
S2,0O0,000. Jay Gould is said to be the real
buyer.
RICHARD JEFFR1Es, author of The ANA
teur Poacher,' -" A Story of My Heart 4"
and other sketches, died in poverty in
London.
REV. DR.. DANIEL CURRY, one of the orna-
ments of the Methodist Episcopal Church
died at New York the 18th, in his seventy
eighth year.
tEORGE DRINShI, VINO was 1rtSluenU
Clevelands army substitute, died of con-
sumption Thursday at the Soldiers Home
at Bath, n. Y.
CHARLES PAGE, who swindled the Jacques
Cartier Bank, Montreal out of $4,000, was
arrested at, Versailles, Quebec. All the
money was found.
A DRUNKEN Indian created moments
stir on Broadway, New York, by trying to
fight cigar-store wooden Indian. He paid
so fine for his fun.
THE uprising of Utes in northern Colorado
has assumed such a dangerous phase that
Governor Adams has called upon the gov
eminent for troops.
LAWYER G.. p. MILLER of New York and
his wife died at New London Friday of
pneumonia. The latter survived her hus-
band but two hours
Two runaway locomotives were thrown
over an embankment near Philadelphia
Two engineers We're fatally injured and the
engines badly wrecked.
A BATTLE between Sheriff Kendalls party
and the Utes has been fought in Colorado,
and the latter got the worst of it. The set
tiers are intensely excited.
AUSTIN CoRBIN of New York and others
have made a formal offer to the state of
New Hampshire to buy its interest in the
Concord railroad for 100000.
PATRICK EGAN and John Fitzgerald of
the Irish National League in America
prophesy serious trouble in Ireland as the
result of proclaiming the league
THE French government has received in
formation that Stanley was killed by natives
in Central Africa, his escort having deserted
him. The report is not believed.
AN eminent police official expresses the
opinion that the revolutionary movement in
Russia continues to spread rapidly, es-
pecially among students and priests
The largest raft of pine logs ever towed in
the world reached Bay City, Mich, last
week from Au Train, in tow of tugs. II con-
tanned 100000 feet and is valued at ST.
100000.
The crop reports received in London say
that the yield of wheat in Great Britain will
be above the average. In France and Italy
"A decided increase over last years crops is
expected.
BY failure of air brakes the east-bound
express on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad
was wrecked at Washington The engineer
was scalded to death and fifteen passengers
were injured.
Young LAWYER TALMADGE LAMBERT, son
of David Lambert, who helped to organize
the territory of Minnesota, has brought
claims into court for certain lands now
valued at nearly S1,000,000.
The New Hampshire railroad committee
voted eight to four to report the Hazen, or
Boston & Maine, bill in new draft, and
recommend the indefinite postponement of
the Anterior, or Concord railroad bill
The railroad commissioners of New
Hampshire, in their report on the Hooksett
On. III y collision, find that the accident re-
suited from IA switch being left open by
Brakeman Chapman of the Pittsiield train.
SUIT has been brought to set aside the
will of the late Washington Depaw of Iu-
diana, who left six millions worth to his
third wife and children of his second and
third wives. The plaintiff is a daughter of
his first wife, who married against her
fathers wishes, and gets only five thousand
by the will
AN express-train on the Consolidated rail
road struck and killed four persons at Five
Mile River, CT Mr.. Van Hoosear, wife,
son and daughter, of Canaan, who had been
spending the day at Norton. Miscalculating
the speed of the train, he drove in front of
it, and the carriage was struck and all in
stantly killed.
SIR ROBERT THoRNBURN, premier of New
foundland says: "The statements published
abroad regarding Newfoundland are UNI
truthful and malicious. There is neither
bankruptcy nor universal restitution. The
bank and western fisheries are successful.
| Labrador and the western fisheries, hitherto
poor, are improving"
THE astonishing report comes from the
department of public health of Iowa that
| there are 10000 confirmed opium. eaters in
that state and 5000 who are constantly un.
| der the influence of the drug. On this
| ground the department recommends that
| the sale of the drug be prohibited by legis-
| latiOn the same as in the instance of liuuOrs